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rouelle en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from French rouelle.

Meanings

1. (countable) A wheel-like amulet of the ancient Gauls, intended to symbolize the sun.
2. steak (especially of veal, cut across the leg)
3. (countable) A round badge that Jews were legally obligated to wear in public.
   • Louis IX. of France compelled every Jew, man, woman, and child, to wear a “rouelle,” or wheel of conspicuously-coloured stuff on the breast and back of the dress, that the Hebrew might be known at a distance. 1870, John Henry Blunt, editor, Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical Theology, London, Oxford, and Cambridge: Rivingtons, page 378:

Forms

Coordinates

yellow star · Judenstern

Hypernyms

yellow patch · Jewish badge